Academic Profile : Faculty

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Asst Prof Haobo Li
Assistant Professor, School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
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Biography

Dr. Haobo Li is an Assistant Professor and independent group leader in Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. She received her Ph.D. in 2017 from Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). In 2018 she moved to Technical University of Munich (TUM) as an Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow. In 2022, Dr. Li joined The University of Adelaide, where she has been appointed as the sole Chief Investigator for an ARC (Australian Research Council) DECRA (Discovery Early Career Researcher Award) Fellowship since 2024. She was awarded the MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35 (TR35, Asian Pacific) in 2023. She has published 60 refereed papers (including Science, PNAS, Nature Commun., JACS, Angew., etc.) with a total citation of 9,000 and an h-index of 36 (google scholar).

Research Interests

Artificial Intelligence-Driven Energy Chemistry, Theoretical Catalysis, Quantum Chemical Computation
 

Current Grants

  • AI-Driven Energy Chemistry

Awards & Recognition

Awards
2024 Nanyang Assistant Professorship (NAP), Nanyang Technological University
2024 Australian Research Council (ARC) DECRA DE240100661 (sole CI) (Highest award for early career researchers in Australia)
2023 MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35 (TR35) Asia Pacific (http://tr35.mittrasia.com/awards)
2023 Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project DP230102027 (CI)
2018 Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellowship, Germany
2017 Beijing outstanding doctoral graduate, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
2016 PhD National Scholarship of China (Highest award for PhD students in China)
2009 Hong Kong Friendship Scholarship